As a means of shortening trading routes, interested parties had long wanted to construct a waterway to connect the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers. That dream finally became a reality in January 1985, when the Tenn-Tom Waterway was officially...

Downtown Mobile had fallen on hard times when this image of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception was taken in 1982. Since then, the area has been revitalized and today a landscaped park occupies the empty space directly in front of the...